using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace BarnBuddyClient
{
    class DataRequest
    {
        public string loadUrl(string url)
        {
            return loadUrl(url, "GET", "");
        }

        public string loadUrl(string url, string method, string postData)
        {
            // used to build entire input
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            // used on each read operation
            byte[] buf = new byte[8192];

            // prepare the web page we will be asking for
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

            request.Method = method;

            if (method.ToLower() == "post")
            {
                // convert postData to a byte array.
                byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
                // Set the ContentType property of the WebRequest.
                request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
                // Set the ContentLength property of the WebRequest.
                request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
                // Get the request stream.
                Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
                // Write the data to the request stream.
                dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
                // Close the Stream object.
                dataStream.Close();
            }
            // execute the request
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)
                request.GetResponse();

            // we will read data via the response stream
            Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();

            string tempString = null;
            int count = 0;

            do
            {
                // fill the buffer with data
                count = resStream.Read(buf, 0, buf.Length);

                // make sure we read some data
                if (count != 0)
                {
                    // translate from bytes to ASCII text
                    tempString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buf, 0, count);

                    // continue building the string
                    sb.Append(tempString);
                }
            }
            while (count > 0); // any more data to read?

            // print out page source
            return (sb.ToString());

        }
    }
}
